Sentences with phrase «slave who»

Are you the financial slave who is paying it or the wealthy beneficiary earning it?

Abraham Galloway, a former fugitive slave who returned to North Carolina and helped draft the state's 1868 constitution, called the judiciary chosen by the Confederate state legislature a «bastard born of sin and secession» and helped move the state to judicial elections.

In one of his most celebrated works, Wilson covered himself in stamps and went to a post-office asking to be placed in the mail — a performative homage to Henry Brown, the 19th century slave who escaped to freedom by shipping himself in a box.

The performance centers on the story of Dave Drake, known as Dave the Potter, an African slave who inscribed his pots with couplets, and whose work is highly sought after today.

She was a South African slave who in the early 1800s was lured with the promise of fortune to London by a ship's doctor, William Dunlop.

The Revolution was initially led by a former slave who became an army general: François - Dominique Toussaint Louverture (20 May 1743 — 7 April 1803), also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture.

The initial opening sequence is dated in its graphical quality, but still delivers an interesting premise to Finn — a slave who is sent out to fight in the gladiator arena, and in that moment resonates with an aspect of his primal self.

Developed by Marvelous AQL and SCE Japan, the game, a third - person fantasy action - adventure game, follows a sorcerer's slave who has the ability to permanently sacrifice limbs, items or even other lives in exchange for powerful attacks.

Players start out as a slave who has to reveal the secret behind

Beth Jenkins is a beautiful young slave who accepts her life even though her heart yearns for more.

My debut picture book is about a former slave who received the first U.S. patent awarded to a black woman.

Consequently, the first story, about a slave who murders his lover and then meets her once again while on the run, and the final story, which uses the Quibungo — a mythical wilderness monster with a mouth in the back of its neck — as a symbolic terror, both resonate the most robustly.

In Darkness by Nick Lake The overlapping tales of Shorty, trapped beneath the rubble of a hospital during the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, and Toussaint L'Ouverture, the real slave who set Haitians free from the French, make this one much more than just a teen book.

The novel follows the indomitable Mary Willis, as she does whatever is necessary to protect a runaway slave who collapses in her father's barn on his way to freedom in Canada.

Sarah Campbell, the young slave who is given to her half - sister as a wedding present, is a heroine, but she is not perfect.

Her savvy translator is Cecilia, a teenage slave who remembers being captured in the Congo when she was eight years old and sold to a trader by her own father.

The author had several titles, but when she got to Thomas Jefferson / Sally Hemmings (his real - life slave who bore him six children), it was suddenly unacceptable.

I got the idea about buying a healer from an antebellum newspaper account (from Maryland I believe) about a slave who had reputedly discovered a cure for a poisonous snake bite.

Remember the slave who went to Harvard Law School??

This is a biopic of Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in 1830s Virginia, and is the feature debut of actor - turned - writer - director Nate Parker.

Barry Pepper (the praying sharpshooter from Saving Private Ryan) is Jonnie, the human slave who leads an uprising against Terl's tyranny.

Game Of Thrones» Kit Harington faces more stacked odds as Milo, a slave who must rescue not only his best pal (fellow gladiator Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) but also the woman he loves, Cassia (Emily Browning), when Vesuvius erupts and begins to bury the shining Roman city of Pompeii under ash and debris.

The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, an escaped slave who goes to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) by teaming up with bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

She will play «Hattie Lemaster, a former slave who has recently arrived to the Five Points to start anew.»

Either way, he's stuck with her out of obligation, like a freed slave who stays on the plantation to help his master.

The film is based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a freeman kidnapped into slavery, and Nyong» o's performance as Patsey, a young slave who's become the object of obsession for sadistic cotton plantation Master Edwin Epps, played by Michael Fassbender, is easily one of the most arresting acting debuts in recent memory.

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He will play a slave who keeps Candie's other slaves in line.

Director Nate Parker will bring The Birth of a Nation, an account of the life of Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt in Virginia in 1831.

Samuel L Jackson has long been a Tarantino favorite, and his delivery as the diabolical Uncle Tom house slave who has some secrets of his own, will bring the house down when he first sees Django and, in a much darker way, when his suspicions are confirmed.

Kirk Douglas stars as the gladiator slave who challenged the power of Imperial Rome in the name of freedom in this inspirational true epic directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Gugu Mbatha - Raw, who shone opposite Nate Parker in the little seen romance Beyond the Lights, stars as the former slave who becomes his wife, in what promises to be a plum role for the underrated British actor.

Set shortly before the start of the Civil War, this stars Jamie Foxx as the title character, a slave who's rescued by a bounty hunter going by the name Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).

Nate Parker stars as Nat Turner — he also directs and collaborated on the screenplay — an educated and well - spoken slave who often delivered sermons.

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

Parker stars as Nat Turner, a former slave who leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African Americans in Virginia.

Foxx will join Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCario and Samuel L. Jackson in a Sergio Leone - style spaghetti Western that Tarantino wrote and has set in Mississippi during slavery... Django is a slave who's liberated by a German dentist - turned - bounty hunter [Waltz] and taught the tricks of the trade by his mentor.

Produced, Written, and Directed by Nate Parker, the film tells the story about Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in 1831 Virginia.

Patsey is a young slave who draws the special attention of her owner and who Northup does his best to protect under the circumstances.

Salma Hayek is Everly, a sex slave who attempts to escape the flat where she's been kept prisoner for four years and slaughters a whole load of Japanese mafia bad guys on the way.

Nightjohn (1996), adapted by Bill Cain from a novel for young adults by Gary Paulsen, is the story of Sarny (Allison Jones), a young house slave on a cotton plantation, who is taught to read by Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly), a slave who escaped to the north but returned to captivity to teach others what he knew.

Sidney Poitier directed and stars in this 1972 western, as a former slave who now works as a wagon master, assisting other freed slaves in...

Flip a switch and the next scene will have Allen exchanging familiar glances and verbal jousts with his duck hunting buddy Christmas (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a freed slave who is the perfect companion for Allen.

Some of the other actors in the film are Aja Naomi King, who plays Nat's wife, Aunjanue Ellis, who plays his mother, and Roger Guenveur Smith, who plays the slave who works in the house and doesn't want to see things change.

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Parker stars in his own directorial debut as Nat Turner, a devoutly religious slave who becomes a traveling preacher — and, eventually, the leader of the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history.

Cay had learned of Allen through his own friendship with Christmas Moultrie, a freed slave who became Allen's business partner, but lived on a historic plantation the Cay family used to own.

«Django Unchained» follows Jamie Foxx as Django, a freed American slave who teams with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to save his wife from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), an evil plantation owner.

Then of course Candyman himself was the son of a former slave who was murdered for racially charged reasons, and we experience that movie through the eyes of a white woman in the scary projects of Cabrini - Green.»

An epic that engages the intellect as well as the eyes and the emotions, this classic stars Kirk Douglas as the title figure, a slave who ends up leading his fellow captives against their Roman oppressors shortly before the time of Christ.